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Restaurant menu Christianity that escapes the cross and transforms Christ God into a delicious, highly digestible pastry

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CHRISTIANITY FROM A RESTAURANT MENU THAT ESCAPES THE CROSS AND TRANSFORMS CHRIST GOD INTO A DELICIOUS HIGHLY DIGESTIBLE PASTRY

Today more than ever it escapes, even to us consecrated, the sacrificial element of the true experience of faith. For some time now we have created what we could define as a restaurant menu Christianity you enter, you read the card and choose what you like. And so to dominate it is the worst of the emotionality animated by human selfishness.

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The three synoptic Gospels of the Beati Evangelisti Marco, Matteo and Luca, have different characteristics, just like the symbolism with which the Evangelists have been depicted since the early Middle Ages, which came to life at the end of the fifth century with the fall of the Roman Empire.

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Matthew the Evangelist it is depicted with the image of the winged man, because its editing begins with the genealogy of Christ the Lord and Messiah; the Blessed Evangelist Mark with the winged lion, because its editing begins with the narration of the preaching of the Precursor, Blessed John known as the Baptist, who preached in the desert, place inhabited by wild beasts; the Blessed Evangelist Luca with the ox, because its editing begins with the vision had by Zacharias in the Temple of Jerusalem, where animals were sacrificed, among which also oxen.

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The authors of the three synoptic Gospels they follow a similar pattern and narrate the same events of the life of Christ God, despite their stylistic differences. Finally the so-called Fourth Gospel, that of Blessed Evangelist John, depicted with the image of an animal considered at the time the most noble of all the species on earth: the Eagle, she who alone could stare at the sunlight with open eyes.

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The Gospel of Blessed John the Evangelist, which opens with a hymn to the mystery of the incarnation of the Word of God - "And the Word became flesh" - is an admirable hymn in the light of Christ true God and true man, pictured below as a living sun descending from heaven. To Blessed Evangelista Giovanni, defined by the great Fathers and doctors of the Church as the theologian par excellence, the motto is accompanied «Higher than the rest of the revealed secret» [higher than the others - John - he revealed the arcane mysteries of God].

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A characteristic of the Gospel of Blessed Evangelista Matteo it is the narrative precision from which the figure of the historical Jesus takes shape, connected by him to numerous old-testamentary references. The whole, to testify that Christ had not come to earth to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill [cf.. Mt 5, 17-20]. And the fulfillment was Him, the God made man, the light that shines in the darkness, as the Evangelist John defines it in his prologue, the "God from God light from Light", as the Church Fathers defined it by writing in the Councils of Nicea and Constantinople the I believe that we will soon recite. Or the Christ the whole, as Saint Augustine called it, that totality in which Christ God is the center, the beginning and the ultimate end of our entire humanism.

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So four personalities of different men, each illuminated by divine grace, who announce the mystery with fixed and timeless words, because as Christ God reveals through the story of the Blessed Evangelist Matthew: «The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will never go away " [Mt 24, 32-35], because they are fixed forever through the mystery of passion, the death and resurrection of Christ, God, in the glorious body of which the signs of passion are still impressed; eternal sign of his love consumed for the redemption of man until the torture of the cross, changing the Word that became flesh in the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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And with this we have reached the heart of this Holy Gospel of the Blessed Evangelist Matthew in which Christ the Lord offers us something terrible: «Whoever does not take his cross and follow me, not worthy of me " [see Liturgy of the Word on this thirteenth Sunday of ordinary time, WHO].

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Today more than ever it escapes, even to us consecrated, the sacrificial element of the true experience of faith. For some time now we have created what we could define as a restaurant menu Christianity you enter, you read the card and choose what you like. And so to dominate it is the worst of the emotionality animated by human selfishness. It is the tragedy of faith watered down by little heart that beats, for example, in front of the tender, poignant popular images of the Child Jesus during Holy Christmas, unaware, however, that this is only the beginning of a path that then comes in the pain of the Garden of Olives, to continue with the immense torment of the painful way and the crucifixion.

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Faith is sacrifice, but many have turned it into a worldly right to what I like. Here then are the Catholics who on the one hand call themselves such, on the other, they declare themselves in favor of abortion, or who say "... it is right that two men live together if they love each other, because what matters is love, indeed it is right to give him even a child for adoption ». And here we should clarify what love is and what is not what some call love. As there are other Catholics who claim that it is right, indeed it is charitable to practice euthanasia for a terminally ill patient, why let him suffer? It is inhuman. And to these latter I answered: “Maybe you don't know what the torture of a crucifixion is, but if you talk to an anatomo-pathologist, he will explain to you the pain and also the humiliating reactions that such torture generated in the body of the condemned exposed naked to the sight of all. Well, it seems to you that the Blessed Virgin Mary pleaded to end the sufferings of her Divine Son?».

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Today we have created a monstrous society chasing a false happiness in which life is without disease and without physical decay; youth without old age and life without death. In this way, a society of the unreal has been created that rejects Christ, or a Catholic community that dilutes the message of Christ who invites us to assimilate to his pain. At that point the same Holy Mass is confused with a meeting between friends who get together to celebrate, to rejoice around the table. Yet it would be enough to listen to the words of the sacred liturgy to understand that through the mystery of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ the divine memorial of the passion is renewed., Death and Resurrection, because the Eucharist is the living and holy sacrifice ... and when I go to the altar, I'm not going to have a joyful party, but I go up to Mount Calvary, because on the altar the bloodless sacrifice of the passion of Christ God is renewed.

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The Holy Father Giovanni Paolo II wrote in 1984 a splendid apostolic letter on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Redemption entitled Saving pain, what does it mean: the salvific value of suffering. At the time,, the future Holy Pontiff had just 62 year old, he was a sporty man full of energy. Why that Letter dedicated to the salvific value of suffering written by a man who seemed the portrait of beauty and health? Well, we think of John Paul II not of 1984, but to that of 2000, when he persisted in kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament even though he was exhausted by the disease, trembling and without strength, with the papal master of ceremonies sweating around him when he wanted to genuflect in every way, obsequious to the end of the warning of the Blessed Apostle Paul "in the name of Jesus every knee should bend in the heavens, on earth and under the earth " [Fil 2, 10]. John Paul II understood immediately, in the splendor of his health, long before his illness, the saving element of pain that assimilates us to the cross of Christ ...

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… When I was consecrated a priest, kneeling before the bishop I received the sacred chalice and paten with these words: "Receive the oblation of the holy people for the Eucharistic sacrifice. Understand what you will do, imitate what you celebrate. Conform your life to the mystery of the cross of Christ the Lord ". I was not told ... now go to party with joyful friends around the canteen among guitarists, dances and tambourines. In essence I was told: now go up to Mount Calvary and through your sacrifice conform yourself to the sacrifice of Christ. This, it is the essence of our faith and, if we really want to follow it, we must be aware - as it is written in the Gospel of Blessed Evangelist Luke - there is no other path than the one indicated by Christ himself: "If anyone wants to come after me, you deny yourself, take up his cross every day and follow me " [LC 9, 22-25].

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... but how would it be to say pain ... cross ... Christianity is love, it is joy! Of course, it is the love of Christ who died on the cross for our salvation and is the joy of the resurrection of the Word of God made man and ascended into heaven who sits today at the right hand of the Father; Christianity is the joy of that resurrection to which we are assimilated, because as we recite in the III Eucharistic Prayer when we remember the dead: "He will transform our mortal body in the image of his glorious body". This, it is Christianity, all the rest, to paraphrase the Book of Qoelet which said "vanity of vanity", it is only emotionality of emotionality. E, between faith and emotionality, the difference is profoundly substantial, because in the middle there is that cross that the superficial emotional does not want and that runs away to live a false faith from a restaurant menu, while the man of true faith is called instead to conform his life to the cross of Christ: "He who does not take his cross and follow me, not worthy of me " [Mt 10, 38].

Jesus Christ be praised!

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“Hospitality” as a secret space to be opened to God to become a place of donation

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“HOSPITALITY” AS A SECRET SPACE TO OPEN TO GOD WHY BECOME A PLACE OF DONATION

Jesus speaks of the welcome of a prophet and a just man. Who knows how to welcome them means that he is the first and just prophet. He says this because Jesus is the welcoming person par excellence and in turn wants to be welcomed into our lives. This causes us to receive Jesus who is the gift par excellence. So we are able to give ourselves and love, like He did, carrying our crosses, in the most difficult and complex moments of our life.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Rome, 28 June 2019, Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Gabriele Giordano Maria Scardocci, o.p. he is consecrated priest

a few years ago I read the story of the Secret Garden of the writer Frances Hodgson Burnett. It's Annie's story, a little girl who, on an English estate, casually discovers a garden, whose existence nobody knows, because it was made secret due to a tragic story. That garden, once opened to Annie's eyes it becomes a welcoming place, of growth and maturation.

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Similarly, in today's readings [see Liturgy of the Word, WHO], the Lord speaks to us first of all about welcoming a secret space to be opened to God, so that it becomes a fruitful place of donation. In the Book of Kings we read:

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«I know that he is a man of God, a saint, the one who always passes by us. We make a small upper room, masonry, let's put a bed, a table, a chair and a candlestick » [2Re 4, 9-10].

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In this first reading, unnamed wife and husband open their home in Elisha, therefore as if they opened a space between him and God. Elisha prays and then prophesies; so comes a son for them, unexpected, and in a sense almost desperate. Husband and wife open up to God then experience God's intervention. So they are the first to be open and somehow fruitful.

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This is beauty of when we also open a space for God and for those who send us. This also happens today, for all of us, if we know how to open our heart and our intimacy to God's plan, it will really fill us with unexpected gifts, of an unexpected hundredfold, of friendships and joys we never expected. So, from the acceptance of God's plan for us, a fruitful being comes. Saint Paul writes:

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«By means of baptism therefore we were buried with him in death so that, like Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too can walk in a new life " [RM 6, 4].

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Fertilization is expressed by Paul just in the new life we ​​live, starting with Baptism. In fact, from Baptism onwards, the Lord has taken up residence, has filled the space of our soul, allowing us to walk on a path of new life, to glory, therefore until we are with Him in Paradise. Baptism is fruitful new life, because it allows all of us to be freed from original sin and filled with baptismal character, by the grace and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Thus also our spiritual life becomes fruitful, because by virtue of baptism we live the liturgy and a personal prayer with which we ask for intercession for the other baptized. Therefore, fertility comes from acceptance, and from fertility comes the gift of self. In the gospel we read:

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«Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet, will have the reward of the prophet, and whoever welcomes a just because he is a just, will have the reward of the just " [Mt 10, 40-41].

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Jesus speaks of the welcome of a prophet and a just man. Who knows how to welcome them means that he is the first and just prophet. He says this because Jesus is the welcoming person par excellence and in turn wants to be welcomed into our lives. This causes us to receive Jesus who is the gift par excellence. So we are able to give ourselves and love, like He did, carrying our crosses, in the most difficult and complex moments of our life.

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The reward of the righteous it is then the imitation of Jesus in a greater love, till death, an imitation that after death will lead him to rise again with Christ himself.

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Voltaire wrote "Originality is nothing more than judicious imitation".

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Lord, give us the courage to imitate you in the decisive choices, the strength to open a space at the bottom of the heart, the tenderness of giving ourselves like you in the Trinity to love until the end.

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Rome, 28 June 2020

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Only if we let ourselves be loved by God, without easy optimisms and dangerous determinisms, "everything will be fine"

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ONLY IF WE LOVE GOD, WITHOUT EASY OPTIMISMS AND DANGEROUS DETERMINISMS, "EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE"

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Everything will be fine, but for whom? After each epidemic, war or earthquake has always gone well? We are sure of it? Only after several years and at the cost of losses and sacrifices, not without those corruption situations that distinguish situations of social destabilization, everything went fine.

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the photo is a hoax [see WHO] but the image itself could make the idea tragically …

My role as a priest requires me - with great sacrifice - to continually discern reality, starting from the Word of Christ and leaving out the word of the world. This means learning to stay within a history of salvation that has Christ as its origin and fulfillment, instead of getting lost behind self-produced mirages of salvation that promptly reveal all the limits and inefficiencies of the case. And when I speak of salvation, I am referring to the one par excellence: the integral salvation that has become revelation and that embraces the body and spirit of man.

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I want to start by analyzing an expression which in the past weeks of quarantine has become the leitmotiv of coronavirus resistance in Italy. On closer inspection, I find it on the border between the low psychology of optimism and the melancholy sense of civicism. Needless to say, it contained little Christian. And the expression to which I refer - and which I find out of place - is the following: "everything will be fine". There would also be another that says "it's my responsibility", but the first already gives enough material for critical reflection.

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"Everything will be fine" it is a human expression suggested by the emergency that we experienced and which seems not to have ended - also formulated with good intentions - but which once again suffers from that pretense of self-salvation that excludes grace and enhances the innate Promethean desire of man. An expression that closely resembles that American film optimism, that positive thought but distracting from faith, a way of being and appearing that shines for the spirit of initiative but nothing more. Sorry, but I don't find myself there, I don't really believe in this: "Everything will be fine".

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Doing a quick search for news on the Web [1] it seems that in Lombardy, between 5 and the 6 last March, written on post-it with this slogan and later on this phenomenon spread to the rest of Italy. To this sentence it has been thought well to add the omnipresent rainbow supported by two clouds, symbol that today has been enlisted by the unique thought, emptied of any biblical connotation and noachian covenant [cf. Gen 9, 8- 12], to re-edit it as a symbol of lobby and to fight rights. And to see how the rainbow antivirus was packaged, one would expect the appearance of Lepricani and pots of gold coins, and instead…

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A modality that will perhaps be able to distract children but that will hardly convince adults. In fact - to this day - the current health crisis, begins to spread a certain generalized discomfort that will not be long in turning into traumatic depression. Instead, regarding the genesis of the annex slogan antiviral, different interpretations can be chosen. There are those who opt for secular origin, arguing that it is the literary intuition of an anonymous Lombard poet [2]. Still others [3], with the tendency to baptize everything, they argue that it is a phrase said by Jesus to Juliana of Norwich, English mysticism lived between the 14th and 15th centuries.

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"Everything will be fine", what it actually means and what is the subject of this expression? Let me understand, everything will be fine after the virus has stopped, after thousands and thousands of deaths have occurred, after many have lost their jobs, after the national economy is on its knees, after health is reduced to historic lows, after families no longer manage to pay their bills and put together lunch and dinner? Everything will be fine, but for whom? After each epidemic, war or earthquake has always gone well? We are sure of it? Only after several years and at the cost of losses and sacrifices, not without those corruption situations that distinguish situations of social destabilization, everything went fine.

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At this point a question: this is the optimism that should take charge of supporting people, even those who believe? As a priest I cannot indulge such a thought, sorry for all those who will disappoint and who would like to see in the priest the dispenser of a certain mass anesthetization that keeps the flock good pending the inevitable shearing.

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I don't want to follow the hermeneutics of optimism but of sure hope, resolute in the Pauline teaching he says: "Who will therefore separate us from the love of Christ? Maybe tribulation, the anguish, the persecution, hunger, nudity, the danger, the sword? But in all these things we are more than winners by virtue of the one who loved us " [cf. RM 8,35]

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Just as all the Fathers of Patmos Island did with their latest writings on this topic, I also think that the way of seeing St. Paul when he always affirms in the Letter to the Romans is decidedly more credible and Christian more sensible, some verses before the previous ones I mentioned, «Everything contributes to good, for those who love God " [cf. RM 8,28].

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In this sentence we understand immediately what we are talking about. Christian good is the result of a love relationship, that is, a refined work of the Spirit, which reveals the weltanschauung in which God manifests himself through the work of the Son [cf. GV 5,17]. It is in this pact of indissoluble and irreplaceable love that everything becomes a vehicle that contributes to good; everything is needed, everything is interconnected, there is no reality in which God does not make his voice heard.

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How many saints, Christian faithful and ordinary men have discovered God starting from situations of suffering, in those realities apparently distant from Him. This is the case of the young Christoph Probst, proud opponent of the Nazi regime and Hitler, than during his captivity, before being sentenced to death and guillotined, will receive holy baptism, Communion and Anointing of the Sick. However, he will have time to write a letter to his mother, with these words: «I thank you for giving me life. Come to think of it, it was only a path to God » [4].

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Here is the felix blame of the Easter preconio, a slow and unstoppable path to God, in which ancient guilt - the origin of all evil - becomes the happy paradox of Providence, through which God saves those who love him, they hope and rely on him.

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We can get out of this pandemic only by loving God and letting ourselves be loved by him, it is the Lord who is speaking to us in these circumstances, indeed it is screaming at our heart through its Spirit, as he did with the blessed apostle Peter: "Simon, son of John, what is? […] you love Me?» [cf. GV 21,15-17]. And Peter had to answer right after the denial, after that guilt consumed in fear, after that spiritual illness that had made his oaths vain [cf. MC 14,29-31]. That denial, made in the courtyard of the high priest [cf. MC 14,66-72], it was a happy fault for him that allowed him to redeem himself by loving the Lord more and letting himself be loved by Him even in the awareness of his own weakness.

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«Everything contributes to good, for those who love God ", let's write it in every heart, not as a dangerous determinism whereby anything will turn to good but in correspondence with that crucified love that has conquered the world and still wins it today.

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Without the love of God, nothing, to think about it, will never go well.

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Laconi, 18 June 2020

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[1] HTTPS://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/20_marzo_05/coronavirus-spuntano-lombardia-decine-biglietti-solidali-anonimi-tutto-andra-bene-a29b7edc-5ed0-11ea-bf24-0daffe9dc780.shtml?refresh_ce-hp

[2] HTTPS://www.animafaarte.it/andra-tutto-bene-significato-archetipico/

[3] HTTPS://it.aleteia.org/2020/03/24/non-andra-tutto-bene-ma-dio-e-sempre-con-noi/

[4] http://liceogbruno.edu.it/docum/giornata_memoria/giornata_2016/La Rosa Bianca-Documenti.pdf

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Cristo Pio Pellicano is the heart of the solemnity of Corpus Domini

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CRISTO PIO PELLICANO IS THE HEART OF THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY OF THE LORD

The anthem I love you devote expresses in his verses the tenderness of Jesus, because he describes the Lord as a pelican who tears his heart to feed his young.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

Pie pellicáne, Jesus Lord, I clean with your blood, One drop of doing, All the world from all kinds of crimes (O pious pelican Lord Jesus, purify me, sinner, with your blood, that, with a single drop, it can save the whole world from all sin).

today we celebrate another wonderful feast of the Lord, Corpus Domini. Great mystery, given to us by the Lord at the Last Supper, last act of tenderness for man.

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The beautiful text of Saint Thomas Aquinas I love you devote expresses in his verses the tenderness of Jesus, because he describes the Lord as a pelican:

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«Oh pious Pelican, Lord Jesus, / Purify me, unclean, with Your blood / Of which a single drop can save / The whole world from all sin ».

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Jesus is the pelican who gives his blood for us his little ones, to keep us alive. So that, land readings today [see Liturgy of the Word, WHO] they introduce us to this mystery of presence, communion and abode with Jesus. First of all, in Deuteronomy, we already find traces of the Lord's living and strong presence:

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«Do not forget the Lord, your god, that brought you out of the land of Egypt, that led you to this great and frightening desert, place of poisonous snakes and scorpions that in the desert fed you with manna unknown to your fathers ».

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Moses' invitation to the Jewish people is not to forget and, so, to remember that the Lord has nourished his people with manna, while he was in situations of great danger. He was always with them, while leading them out of Egyptian slavery. Manna is a prefiguration of Eucharistic food, with which the Lord is still close to us today and gives us nourishment in the difficulties of life. This invitation is then for us: let's not forget about the Eucharistic Jesus, when everything seems dark, when there seems to be no way out. The Lord himself helps, through the Eucharist, to recognize our moral and existential slavery and to get out of it. While St. Paul exposes this mystery of presence and communion in a strong and clear way:

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«There is only one bread, we are, although many, one body: in fact we all participate in the only bread ".

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This is a great teaching. Whenever we make communion, we enter into communion with Jesus; and this, it makes us communion among us. We become one, without losing our personal distinction. The great teaching of this feast is to try to live every mass, any participation in communion as a source of unity, ecclesial but also interpersonal: the Eucharist will help us to overcome the divisions and rifts that may arise. In fact, from this communion there is the experience of God who dwells in us. This is then the center of Jesus' teaching:

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«Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him».

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In the Greek original, that "remains" can also be translated by dwelling, taking just a shade of place. Now that we're going to take communion, God will take up residence in us. This dwelling has a very important meaning: in fact it is welcoming another point of view, that of God who enters the most intimate folds of the soul, of the heart and therefore of life. The remaining of Jesus in us then allows us to open ourselves to a contemplative vision, deep, with the gaze of God on all the people we meet, about all the events that happen to us.

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The poet William Blake wrote: "The ruins of time build dwellings in eternity".

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We ask the Lord to feel the beautiful touch of Jesus in our hearts through the Eucharistic species, so that beyond the time that passes between minutes and seconds and the history that unfolds between years and centuries, we can continue walking until reaching Eternal life and building the eternal home to enjoy the final banquet of Paradise.

Amen

Rome, 14 June 2020

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WISDOM: ANTIDOTE TO THE CANCER OF THE EMOTIONALITY OF PRIESTS AND LAITY

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Emotional sentimentalism is the denial of wisdom, because the emotional sentimental is closed to transcendence insofar as it is folded into the obtuse dimension of ... "but I feel ...". And folding the man in the cult of his "I", in the name of an unspecified opening, open societies are not created at all, but closed societies which end up becoming schizophrenic societies, inside of of which emotionality becomes an element of violence and injustice.

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The Wisdom of King Solomon

In this Lectio I explain that pto penetrate the arcane mysteries of God and Revelation, we proceed through the reason that guides us to the door of the great mysteries of God. A quel point, from reason we proceed through faith. Because of this, to reason and faith, it is customary to accompany the word wisdom: the wisdom of faith, the wisdom of, the wisdom of the heart, all elements that bring justice to life, because God is just as merciful and merciful as right. A mercy without justice, it is not even thinkable, except to transform God into something else, in something different from what he is and who has revealed himself to man, for example, changing it to one merciful molasses […]

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